TLC Postpones Funeral-Themed Show: Last week in TV Tidbits, we told you about TLC’s upcoming special Best Funeral Ever—a show in which the Dallas-based Golden Gate Funeral Home where a staff is ready to organize the most unique and extravagant funerals ceremonies. However in light of Friday’s tragedy, the network has decided to delay the one-hour special until Sunday, Jan. 6 after Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’s Halloween special. [The Hollywood Reporter]
The People Spoke, Discovery Listened: Soon after Friday’s elementary school shooting in Connecticut, outraged citizens began posting angry messages on the Facebook page for Discovery Channel’s docu-series, American Guns. On Monday it was announced that American Guns will not be receiving a third season and the pro-gun series has been cancelled. [Deadline]
9021-Oh!: Looks like Jennifer Love Hewitt is getting a handsome new vistor when Lifetime’s The Client List returns next year. 90210’s Trevor Donovan is temporarily leaving his posh Beverly Hills show and headed over to The Rub—the secret prostitution massage parlor where Hewitt’s character, Riley Parks, works. Donovan will guest star in an upcoming episode as an NFL quarterback who has an odd dessert-driven fetish. Yum. [Zap2it]
Jack Black Starts New Web Project: According to a press release on Monday, Jack Black’s newest web comedy series is set to debut in Spring 2012. “Ghost Ghirls follows the comedic antics of two young female ghostbusters, played by Amanda Lund and Maria Blasucci--a pair of investigators attempting to solve the mysteries behind paranormal phenomena.” Jake Johnson, Molly Shannon, Jason Schwartzman and many others will gues star in the upcoming scripted paranormal procedural produced by Shine America and Black’s Electric Dynamite Productions.
Nashville Casts a New Face: Actress Ming-Na, known for her sporadic TV roles on E.R., Two and a Half Men, and Eureka, has been tapped to guest star on an upcoming episode of Nashville. Ming-Na will appear on the ABC drama’s 11 episode as Calista Reeves, a successful L.A. music label executive who is determined to lure Reyna (Connie Britton) away from Edgehill Records. [TV Line]
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You Better Belieb It: ABC is currently developing a single-camera sitcom that would be based on the life of mega-pop star Justin Bieber. What’s even more surprising is this is not the first time the alphabet network has attempted this plan. The untitled family comedy is under consideration for next fall’s TV season and would center on the teen icon’s awkward years before becoming famous. [TV Guide]
More Casting Changes on The Mindy Project: FOX's freshman comedy has already cut several characters, but it's adding another. Beth Grant, who played grumpy nurse Beverly in one episode, has been promoted to series regular. She'll join fellow newbie Mary Grill, who was recently cast in a recurring role (with the potential for growth) as Mindy's college friend. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Happy Endings Gets in the Game: Former Saturday Night Live cast member Abby Elliott is joining another primetime comedy for a guest spot after popping up on 2 Broke Girls in December. She'll appear in one episode of Happy Endings as a potential love interest for Max -- that's right, the gang's gay friend. Don't worry, there's an explanation for his sudden change in sexual preference: Elliott's character, Katie, has awesome tickets to Chicago Bulls games, prompting the basketball-loving Max to try something new. [Entertainment Weekly]
Dane Cook is Not a Total Loser: NBC is giving the crude comedian another opportunity to impress. Cook’s midseason comedy Next Caller was cut from the NBC lineup just four episodes into production because the network was unhappy with its “creative direction.” Now the peacock network has decided to stay in business Cook and inked a new deal with the actor-comedian to develop a new starring vehicle for him. Fingers crossed this one actually makes it to air. [Deadline]
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Seth Cohen Returns to TV: The OC’s Adam Brody is heading back to the small screen, but this time he’s not headed to the pretentious-yet-posh O.C. Brody will join the cast of House of Lies for a two-episode arc as Jeanne’s (Kristen Bell) new love-interest. But here’s where it gets good: Brody will play the owner of an adult toy company. Something tells us that Sandy and Kirsten would not approve of the former comic book lover’s new career choice. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Pretty Little Love Interest? How I Met Your Mother is getting a visit from one of ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars. Ashley Benson has been cast to guest star as an unconventional love interest for one of the MacLaren’s Pub regulars on the comedy’s Jan. 21 episode. Earlier this week CBS Tweeted that Benson would be playing “Barney’s ????” Our money is placed on the little liar playing Barney’s sure-to-be legendary little sister. [TV Line]
The Office Nabs a New Teammate: Julias Erving—aka Dr. J—is set to appear in an upcoming episode of The Office as…himself! Shocking we know. According to EW, Dr. J. “becomes an investor in the sports marketing business that Jim (John Krasinski) is trying to launch in Philadelphia, where Erving scored more than a few baskets as a 76er.” You can catch the basketball star on the NBC comedy January 17. [EW.com]
TLC Gets Morbid: The Network that brought us Honey Boo Boo has another TV gem that they’d like to add to our holiday lineup: Best Funeral Ever. Oh yes we’re serious. The Learning Channel is airing a one-hour special December 26 that goes inside the Dallas-based Golden Gate Funeral Home where a staff is ready to organize the most unique and extravagant funerals ceremonies. According to TLC’s press release, “The Golden Gate staff works with the families to create a central theme for a memorial and then elevates it to an unforgettable party.”
Real World: Hatfields &amp; McCoys: Following the huge success of the miniseries Hatfields &amp; McCoys, The History Channel is developing a reality series featuring the descendents of the two families. Details surrounding the upcoming series are being kept very hush-hush but fingers crossed that these two families have reconciled their differences by now. [Deadline]
More Whitney To Come: NBC has given Whitney an additional three episodes in their second season, bringing their total up to 16. [Deadline]
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Mads Mikkelsen will take on the role of the serial killing cannibal in a TV drama prequel to Harris' Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs, and Anderson will appear alongside the Danish actor as Lecter's psychiatrist, Dr Bedelia Du Maurier.
Anderson's move back to the American small screen comes a decade after The X-Files ended in 2002. She subsequently relocated to England to work in the British TV industry.
Executive producer Bryan Fuller says, "Every therapist needs their own head examined and we are ecstatic that Gillian Anderson has chosen Hannibal to mark her return to American television after 10 years to portray Dr. Lecter's personal psychiatrist.
"Her intelligence and sophistication, not to mention her pedigree of ground-breaking TV, make her the perfect actress to match wits and psychological manipulations with one of the greatest villains of pop culture. I couldn't be more excited."
Lecter has previously been portrayed by Brian Cox, Gaspard Ulliel and Sir Anthony Hopkins, who won an Oscar for his creepy role opposite Jodie Foster in 1991 movie The Silence of the Lambs. He reprised the role in two more films.

Tidbits time! It's your favorite time of day, America: that time when the whole family gets together and huddles around the computer screen to revel in the warm glow of today's best bits of television news. Tonight we join hands and celebrate the many gifts we have received today: from Burbank, California to McIntyre, Georgia, if it can be filmed and put on the small screen, it will be. So let's dig in to the best of what our best friend TV has to offer.
Spend the HOLLAday Season with Honey Boo Boo: A dollar isn't the only thing that makes her holler: so do the holidays! TLC has released the new schedule for their self-described "HOLLAday" episodes of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, slated to premiere in January. Halloween, Christmas, and Thanksgiving will all be spotlighted over 4 episodes of the new season starting January 6th. And the phenomenon continues. [The Huffington Post]
Gillian Anderson is Returning to TV, Clarice: Brace yourselves, sci-fi nerds: your resident queen, X-Files alumna Gillian Andersonis making her return to television with Hannibal, it was announced today, after a 10 year absence from the small screen. The hotly-anticipated new show (with an incredibly cast list to boot) will see Anderson play the role of Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier in a multiple-episode arc. For those unaware, Dr. Du Maurier isn't just any psychiatrist: in fact, she's a murderous psychiatrist AND, coincidentally, the therapist of Dr. Hannibal Lecter. "Every therapist needs their own head examined and we are ecstatic that Gillian Anderson has chosen Hannibal to mark her return to American television..." explained creator/producer Bryan Fuller in a statement. [EW]
The CW Gets Real..ity: Perennial young adult favorite The CW is broadening its horizons in the world of reality television by picking up orders for two new reality series: The Hunt and Perfect Score. According to a press release from the net, The Hunt is "an intense wilderness competition" between 12 teams of two, trying to outrun, outwit, outlast (hmm, why does that sound so familiar?) each other under seemingly-insane conditions (they get no food, water, or shelter) to win a "huge cash prize." If this didn't already sound like a walk in the park to you, the teams must also rely on their own physicality, hunting, and survival skills to endure the elements and avoid capture. So like, The Hunger Games? Less terrifying-sounding than that is Perfect Score, which is a dating competition that gives players a chance at true love! to win a date, but also the opportunity to win cash if they can successfully identify whole their perfect match is (based on a compatibility test they all took ahead of time). Game, set, match.
FX is Keeping it in The Family: Margo Martindale, who won an Emmy for her work on Justified, is joining the network's new drama The Americans in a recurring role. The Cold War-set show stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as Russian spies living in the U.S. Martindale's character will also be a KGB spy living outside of Washington, D.C. [The Hollywood Reporter]
ABC Believes in John Leguizamo: A few days after the network decided not to go forward with his comedy pilot, The Kings of Van Nuys, the same network has commissioned another starring vehicle for the actor, based on his own life. The as-yet-untitled project features Leguizamo as a "husband, father, and fish out of water on the Upper West Side of New York." He'll co-write the comedy. [Deadline]
Is The Killing Losing Characters?: The show might have gotten a new lease on life at AMC (via Netflix), but at least one of the previously canceled drama's stars won't be back for Season 3. Billy Campbell, who played mayoral candidate Darren Richmond on the Seattle-set series, will not return. Neither will Brent Sexton and Michelle Forbes, who played the parents of the girl who was murdered in the pilot, will also not return. However, series stars Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman will be back as Detectives Linden and Holder. [Variety]
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"The key is, when playing a crazy man like that, to play the total opposite. Play him as totally sane. Play him as ordinary... Don't try to be evil." Sir Anthony Hopkins on how to play a serial killer like The Silence of the Lambs villain Hannibal Lecter.

You might recall, if you think back to the age-old era of 2011, the REELZ Network miniseries The Kennedys, the Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes starrer that chronicled the former First Family of the United States, strangers neither to glory nor tragedy. If you do remember the series, you'll likely also remember the none too favorable reviews it received from television critics. They weren't Guy Fieri bad, but they were nothing to write home about, either. Still, the family perseveres — REELZ is planning a sequel to The Kennedys, as announced by network President Stan E. Hubbard.
The second series will find source material in the book After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family, written by J. Randy Taraborrelli. In a press release, Hubbard states, "With The Kennedys miniseries we saw tremendous response to powerful storytelling along with an intense interest in this remarkable family. In his book, J. Randy Taraborrelli tells the incredible true story of the Kennedys from 1968 to today."
Hubbard continues: "The Kennedy family continued to make an indelible mark on the life of America and the world after Robert Kennedy’s assassination, including universal healthcare and the creation of the Special Olympics."
As with the first series, the forthcoming sequel is being produced by Muse Entertainment.
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Eddie Izzard must like the taste of blood. Just last month, the 50-year-old actor played Grandpa Munster, a vampire obsessed with eating people and drinking their blood, in the TV special, Mockingbird Lane. And now, Izzard has reportedly been cast to guest star in the NBC thriller, Hannibal, according to Entertainment Weekly.
While Izzard played a deadly killer in Mockingbird Lane, he will also be taking on a similar role in his new gig. According to the report, Izzard will pose as an inmate locked up in the same prison as Hannibal Lector. His specific role is said to be that of "the infamous Chesapeake Ripper" — a serial killer who likes to remove his victim's organs.
The killer instinct isn't the only thing that Izzard's two recent roles have in common. Writer Bryan Fuller is responsible for both Mockingbird Lane and the up and coming production of Hannibal.
While there has yet to be a premiere date set for Hannibal, the buzz surrounding the show is that this may be one of NBC's most promising upcoming programs. If this is true, Izzard may have just found his next big meal ticket.
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Skyfall is the perfect film to accompany the 50th Anniversary of the first big screen Bond movie Dr. No. The movie is a crossroads for 007; the spy is an old soul with unconventional archaic methods struggling to exist in a high-tech world with enemies who swap laser beams and nukes for Internet viruses and data infiltration. This conflict is the core of Skyfall — perfect for director Sam Mendes (American Beauty Revolutionary Road) — and the human drama gives every moment of the espionage thriller additional weight. Sure there are the grandiose set pieces we've come to expect from the series. But like the older films Mendes keeps most of the action contained the focus always on star Daniel Craig as he evades and confronts danger. He even pushes further allowing the evildoers into MI-6's home and through the magic of performance the audience into the mind of Bond.
After a botched mission sends him off the grid James Bond returns to his homebase in London to discover the MI-6 in disarray. The target of system attacks seemingly designed to screw with M (Judi Dench) MI-6 calls upon a noticeably shaken (not stirred) Bond to get back on his feet and track down the nefarious face behind the online terrorism. While politico Gareth Mallory (Ralph Fiennes) would prefer to use the magic of computers and drones to dig up the bad guy M knows even Bond at 50% is unlike any machine in the world. A few training sessions and a weapon upgrade from Q (Ben Whishaw) later Bond hits the road.
In pure Bond fashion Skyfall traverses some beautiful landscapes. From China's glowing waterside gambling epicenter Macau to the remains of a South Pacific isle to the foggy country side of Scotland. Departing from action movie aesthetics and embracing shadows atmosphere and imperfection Bond's journey feels even more tangible than the "realistic" approach of Casino Royale. The haunting locations reflect his deeply personal mission. It helps too that Bond is faced by one of his best villains yet: Javier Bardem as the charming psychopathic Raul Silva. Silva acts as another mirror for Bond albeit a version completely off the rails. Like a mix of Hannibal Lecter and Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight Silva is determined to burn his opponents in any fashion possible. Bardem plays it all with a sinister smirk — a twist on the maniacally-laughing Bond villains of yesteryear.
Skyfall's concentration is on the dramatic but continuously delivers in the action department. Mendes finds innovative new ways to stage classic Bond moments; a one-shot fist fight in the windows of skyscraper bubbles over with intensity while another in the Chinese casino tips its hat to the campier side of the franchise. And the movie goes big with an opening sequence on par with any of Bond's past outings and a foot chase through London's Tube that tests Craig's limits as a physical performer. He never misses a beat.
Impressively Skyfall is a movie pulled from this moment in history while encompassing everything that made James Bond a long-lasting character. It's one of the best Bond entries of all time a heart-pounding action flick from start to finish (with a rousing conclusion evoking everything from Terence Young to Sam Peckinpah) and one of the best movies of the year.
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When the FBI takes on a case of disappearing college girls, Jack Crawford recruits Will Graham, a gifted criminal profiler with a unique view into the psyche of serial killers, to consult. Jack also seeks the help of Dr. Hannibal Lecte, a brilliant psychiatrist, who, unbeknownst to him, is not only one of the most successful serial killers of all time, but also a cannibal. After a copycat strikes, Will and Hannibal join forces to track down the culprit.

Episode 2. Amuse-Bouche
(AIR DATE 04/11/2013)

Will Graham, now an official special investigator with the FBI, helps Jack Crawford and the BAU unit search for a murderer who buries his victims alive to grow mushrooms. In their therapy sessions, Hannibal begins to gain Will's trust as they bond over responsibility for Abigail , and helps Will open up about his true feelings about killing Hobbs. Meanwhile, Freddie Lounds snoops around the BAU's investigation.

Episode 3. Potage
(AIR DATE 04/18/2013)

Even though Alana is against it, Hannibal escorts Abigail back to Minnesota and Jack suspects that Abigail helped her father in his killings. Things get worse when a copycat killer murders one of Abigail's friend. Hannibal suggests that they hide the body but, holding this secret may carry a price.

Episode 4. Coquilles
(AIR DATE 04/25/2013)

Will Graham and the BAU team track a serial killer whose bloody ritual includes cutting the victims' back flesh and stretching it to look like angel wings. Returning to the field weighs heavily on Will's psyche and Hannibal tries to drive a wedge between Will and Jack. Meanwhile, Jack Crawford's wife Bella pulls away from him and begins seeing Hannibal as her therapist, in an effort to come to terms with the fact she is dying. Beverly tries to connect with Will on a more personal level.

Episode 5. Entree
(AIR DATE 05/02/2013)

Jack & Alana are contacted by a former colleague, Dr. Chilton, who believes he has The Chesapeake Ripper in custody, but then one of his patients commits a murder that matches The Ripper's profile. The team determines the Ripper was a surgeon and is still at large when Jack's former protege Miriam becomes the next victim. Jack copes with her loss and the prospect of losing his wife by opening-up to Hannibal.

Episode 6. Sorbet
(AIR DATE 05/09/2013)

When the BAU investigates a murder involving organ removal Jack believes that the Chesapeake Ripper may have resurfaced, but Will determines that the victim's murder is the result of illegal organ harvesting accident. Meanwhile, Will suffers from nightmares where he is Abigail's father, and Hannibal slowly starts to seduce Alana Bloom and begins to visit his own therapist, Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier.

Episode 7. Fromage
(AIR DATE 05/16/2013)

The BAU investigates a murder in which the killer exposes the victim's vocal cords to literally play them like a cello. Meanwhile, Hannibal discovers that the killer, Tobias, murdered the victim as an attempt to gain Hannibal's attention but then makes an attempt to take Lecter's life. Will is driven to distraction by strange noises in his head and turns to Alana, in a romantic way, seeking peace and stability. Hannibal describes his relationship with Will to his therapist, Dr. Bedilia Du Maurier..

Will is determined to fight for his innocence as Hannibal and Jack try to wrap their heads around the fact he's behind bars. Meanwhile, Alana faces a strained relationship with Will while Kade Purnell with the FBI pays him a visit.

Episode 2. Sakizuki
(AIR DATE 03/07/2014)

The case of the human soup becomes clearer when a victim that has escaped from the killer's clutches washes downstream after a deadly fall, leaving valuable evidence for the BAU team to uncover. Hannibal Lecter assists on the case, sniffing out clues of his own from of the victim's body. Meanwhile, Will Graham begins a plan of manipulation from within the asylum, set on proving his own innocence. Hannibal is able to put the clues together before the BAU team, arriving at the killer's silo and helping him to carry out his fascinating, yet deadly tableau... just not in the way the killer intended. Jack tries to deal with his guilt over not protecting Will and submits to mandated therapy after Alana Bloom's scathing report. To Jack's surprise the counseling turns out to be beneficial. The BAU team independently arrives at the silo, finding a human tapestry of forty-seven bodies patched together, the killer hidden in plain sight. Awaiting his upcoming trial, Will is surprised by an unexpected guest Bedelia du Maurier who gives him a much-needed boost to his psyche.

Episode 3. Hassun
(AIR DATE 03/14/2014)

Will Graham's trial begins and he must watch as those closest to him are forced to take sides. Jack Crawford, already in hot water from Alana Bloom's scathing report about his conduct with Will, is pulled in conflicting directions. He acknowledges that he may be partially to blame for pushing his star pupil over the edge. To add confusion to an already suspenseful trial, a court bailiff is killed in a Copycat-like manner and those closest to Will start to wonder if they were wrong about him. The outcome of the entire trial hangs in the balance as one last key victim is served up.

Episode 4. Takiawase
(AIR DATE 03/21/2014)

Our team is called in when a body is found in a meadow, the cranial cavity converted into a beehive. Meanwhile, Beverly Katz continues to work on the mural killer case, secretly consulting with Will Graham to decipher the killer's human tapestry. Will insists that the killer was put in the mural by Hannibal Lecter, and urges her to prove that Hannibal is the real Chesapeake Ripper and Copycat Killer.

Episode 5. Mukozuke
(AIR DATE 03/28/2014)

When one of the team's own is found in a grotesque tableau, Will volunteers to assist with the profile and informs Jack that it's the work of the Chesapeake Ripper and the Copycat Killer the two are one and the same. Dr. Able Gideon is brought back to the asylum to help confirm Will's claims of the Ripper's true identity, but instead suggests to Will the idea of putting an end to the Ripper once and for all. Confined behind bars, Will enlists the help of Freddie Lounds to contact his murderous admirer through her website. Once he has the killer's attention, Will asks for help dealing with Hannibal . Alana becomes suspicious of Will's intentions after reading Freddie's article, and Gideon confirms her suspicions, sending Alana and Jack rushing to find Hannibal before it's too late.

Episode 6. Futamono
(AIR DATE 04/04/2014)

When a city councilman's body is found in a parking lot, intertwined with a tree, the artistry and missing organs suggest the work of the Chesapeake Ripper. Jack and the team race against time to catch the Ripper while he's still on his killing spree. When Will suggests the possibility that the Ripper is filling his pantry with the victims' organs, Jack crashes Hannibal Lecter's dinner party to collect evidence and test the meat for human DNA. Jack's growing suspicions drive Alana even closer to Hannibal, believing he is the victim of a witch hunt. Meanwhile, clues from the tree man help the BAU zero in on a location they believe the Ripper used. There they discover the most shocking revelation of Jack Crawford's career Miriam Lass alive.

Episode 7. Yakimono
(AIR DATE 04/11/2014)

When Jack Crawford's star pupil Miriam Lass is found alive, she becomes the FBI's best hope to identifying the Chesapeake Ripper, but her foggy memory complicates the search. Evidence found at the site of Miriam's rescue exonerates Will Graham of any involvement in the Ripper and Copycat cases, and he is released from the asylum. Will warns Dr. Chilton that he could be in danger due to his intimate knowledge of the Ripper case, but when Chilton tries to confide in Jack that he shares Will's fears about Hannibal, he is rebuffed no evidence has been found against Hannibal, despite the FBI's efforts. Meanwhile, Jack wastes no time in reinstating Will on the BAU team as they hunt for the Ripper. After introducing Will and Miriam to compare notes, Jack's suspicions of Hannibal's involvement continue to build. Only Miriam's memory holds the key to unlocking the Ripper's true identity, but can it be trusted?

Episode 8. Zu-Zakana
(AIR DATE 04/18/2014)

When a young woman's body is discovered inside of a horse, Hannibal suggests to Jack that Will be brought in to help crack this peculiar case. Will has seemingly cast aside his suspicions of Hannibal, resuming their doctor-patient relationship, but Alana remains skeptical regarding Will's true intentions and worries that Hannibal may still be in danger. The FBI questions the man they suspect to be the killer in their case, but lack of evidence forces them to let him go. Will and Hannibal race to guard the safety of a witness they believe is in jeopardy, but it might be Will's own judgment that is in peril.

Episode 9. Shizakana
(AIR DATE 04/25/2014)

The FBI is called in to investigate the discovery of a truck driver's body, seemingly torn apart by two separate species of animal working in tandem, neither of which consumed their kill. After one of his therapy sessions, Will meets Hannibal's strange new patient, Margot Verger. Will and Margot compare notes on Hannibal and his unconventional advice. Continually encouraging his patients to revel in what they are, Hannibal aims to determine Will's true self by sending him a test, the results of which surprise even Hannibal.

Episode 10. Naka-Choko
(AIR DATE 05/02/2014)

The bond between Hannibal and Will grows after Will demonstrates his willingness to go to dark places, a shift that does not go unnoticed by Jack. Jack and the FBI team investigate a tableau made of Randal Tier and his animal exoskeleton, fully realized as the vicious hunter he yearned to be. Hannibal advises Margot Verger regarding her concerns over her brother Mason's violent nature, a fear that intensifies when Mason demonstrates how he has trained pigs to consume human flesh. Will agrees to an interview with Freddie Lounds for her upcoming book, and learns that she is looking into his allegations of Hannibal's possible guilt.

Episode 11. Ko No Mono
(AIR DATE 05/09/2014)

The truth of Freddie Lounds' disappearance is discovered by Jack and his team. Alana expresses her concern over Will's mental state, but he confuses her fears by encouraging her to arm and protect herself. Mason Verger suspects that his sister, Margot, is plotting to usurp him by getting pregnant with an heir. Hannibal reveals to Will how much Abigail reminded him of his sister, making it even harder for Will to understand why she had to die.

Episode 12. Tome-Wan
(AIR DATE 05/16/2014)

In a therapy session, Will imagines how he would kill Hannibal, honestly sharing his visions, and oddly bolstering their co-dependency. Later, in a session with Mason Verger, Hannibal discusses Margot's unfortunate "accident" and other veiled threats. Jack grows impatient with Will's progress on catching Hannibal, and brings in a surprise witness from the past to help. And when Hannibal's life is threatened, Will must decide whether to come to his aid, and give Hannibal the opportunity for revenge.

Episode 13. Mizumono
(AIR DATE 05/23/2014)

A trap is set for Hannibal. Will tries to tie up loose ends as he prepares for a departure; and a battle between Hannibal and Jack comes to the fore